What is the current state of the search for extraterrestrial radio communications?
A) Several extraterrestrial civilizations have been found, but they are not intelligent enough for us to bother with, and the search is continuing.
B) Several private or university-based searches using existing telescopes and links to millions of private home computers are searching at many frequencies.
C) Continuous transmissions are being sent out from Earth at several frequencies in the "water hole," and tens of millions of other frequencies are being monitored.
D) Several dedicated telescopes are continuously monitoring the neighborhoods of nearby stars, which are known to have planets, for bright flashes or coded signals at common visible laser wavelengths.
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